The Adventures of Roberta X

     Watching the Sunday morning political shows was an especially pointed example of "One screen, two movies."      Especially w...

     "OMG, look what the current Administration did!"  Yeah, just take it as given: every day is a new spectacle of some sort, Fed...

     New York Times: "Joseph Biden may be too old to serve second term, should drop out of election now."      Also New York Time...

      Sometimes -- not every time, but sometimes -- the reason your life is a shitstorm is because everywhere you go, you sling shit.

     I thought I had gotten that out of the way last year, but here it is again.      Most people's birthdays are fine with me.  Mine ...

     I'm not kidding about either one; Mom X, by virtue of the power of annexation, lives in Carmel, IN, the wealthiest little city in t...

(Q)uit, (R)etry, (G)et more coffee: __   

I don't know why.  --Well, I know part of why: I really dislike the hap-hap-happeee Holiday Season.  It's pretty much stress, fear a...

     The good thing about two bloggers sharing office space is you bounce ideas off one another and get little bits of funny repartee to quo...

     Sure, the song says, "It's the most wonderful time of the year."  For me, the "holiday season," Christmas espec...

10 TIE ME KANGAROO DOWN 20 MATE 30 GOTO 10 40 END Just promise me the offspring won't be allowed to run wild. Kthxbye. (Cybrus sugges...

[SFX: Alarm clock beeping] Brain? Brain? Are you there? Are you awake? ::incoherent mumbling:: Brain! ::Whazzit awreddy? Y'up?:: Da...

I came to -- it felt more like that than waking up -- with Tam sitting on the foot of my bed and CNN blaring on my TV. I blame my presen...

I really want to like Ka-Blam Digital Printing: kewl website, useful FAQs and about half the price of, say, Lulu.com . And they'll ev...

Ah, the modern, all-purpose, inoffensive carol: Dashing through the Stuff In some kind of open Thing Oh, what joy we'll know Oh, what so...

Readers may remember the popular TV show, " Quantum Leap ." Every episode, our intrepid meddler hero ended up a short-term tenan...

...'Cos they keep falling off. Originally reported as "impersonating an officer," it seems a fellow gave a...dancer....a ride...

I only commented on it in passing when it happened : a nasty altercation between police and a (corn-fed) 15-year-old boy, Brandon Johnson, ...

Everyone has something that creeps them out, I suppose, and mine is travel. Trying to process why, I've found two things that contri...

I do not believe it. Popped up on Google Maps : Indianapolis has a neighborhood called " Venerable Flackville ." Srsly. I h...